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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO<br/>
<span class=large>ST MATTHEW</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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Jesus pronounces woes upon the scribes and Pharisees—The blood of the prophets shall be required at their hands—They shall not escape the damnation of hell.
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Then</span> spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
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Saying, The <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">scribes</a> and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="The Greek word connotes a chair of judgment and instruction.">seat</a>:
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All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, <i>that</i> observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
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For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay <i>them</i> on men’s shoulders; but they <i>themselves</i> will not move them with one of their fingers.
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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR enlarge their phylacteries.">make</a> broad their <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 9 (9, 16); Deut. 6: 8.">phylacteries</a>, and enlarge the <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Num. 15: 38.">borders</a> of their garments,
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And love the <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 11: 43; Luke 14: 7.">uppermost</a> rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/7a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 4  . . .  Rabbi (which is master.).">Rabbi</a>.
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But be not ye called <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/8a" mark="a" type="D" title="Heb. and Aramaic: Master, or, My master.">Rabbi</a>: for one is your <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Col. 4: 1 (1-11).">Master</a>, <i>even</i> Christ; and all ye are brethren.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/9a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 6 And call no one your creator upon the earth, or your heavenly Father; for one is your creator and heavenly Father, even he who is in heaven.">And</a> call no <i>man</i> your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
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Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/10a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 7  . . .  even he whom your heavenly Father sent, which is Christ; for he hath sent him among you that ye might have life."><i>even</i></a> Christ.
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But he that is <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/11a" mark="a" type="C" title="Mark 10: 44 (42-45); Luke 22: 24 (24-30); TG Leadership.">greatest</a> among you shall be your <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Servants.">servant</a>.
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And whosoever shall <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Haughtiness; TG Pride.">exalt</a> himself shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 49: 10.">abased</a>; and he that shall <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/12c" mark="c" type="C" title="James 1: 9 (8-16); D&C 112: 3; D&C 124: 114; TG Humility.">humble</a> himself shall be exalted.
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&#182; But woe unto you, <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">scribes</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">Pharisees</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/13c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR actors.">hypocrites</a>!  for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in <i>yourselves,</i> neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Injustice.">devour</a> widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Damnation.">damnation</a>.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/15a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 12  . . .  than he was before, like unto yourselves.">than</a> yourselves.
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Woe unto you, <i>ye</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Spiritual Blindness.">blind</a> guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
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<i>Ye</i> fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
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<i>Ye</i> fools and blind: for whether <i>is</i> greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
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And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
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And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">hypocrites</a>!  for ye pay <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Tithing.">tithe</a> of mint and <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/23c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR dill.">anise</a> and cummin, and have <sup>d</sup><a href="matt/23/23d" mark="d" type="P" title="GR abandoned.">omitted</a> the weightier <i>matters</i> of the law, <sup>e</sup><a href="matt/23/23e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Justice.">judgment</a>, <sup>f</sup><a href="matt/23/23f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Mercy.">mercy</a>, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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<i>Ye</i> blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/24a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 21  . . .  who make yourselves appear unto men that ye would not commit the least sin, and yet ye yourselves, transgress the whole law.">camel</a>.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR rapacity, greediness.">extortion</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/25b" mark="b" type="R" title="GR self-indulgence, lack of self-control; TG Temperance.">excess</a>.
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<i>Thou</i> blind Pharisee, <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Purification; TG Washing.">cleanse</a> first that <i>which is</i> within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  for ye are like unto <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/27a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR whitewashed tombs; Acts 23: 3.">whited</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 11: 44.">sepulchres</a>, which indeed appear <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/27c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Beauty.">beautiful</a> outward, but are within full of dead <i>men’s</i> bones, and of all <sup>d</sup><a href="matt/23/27d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Cleanliness.">uncleanness</a>.
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Even so ye also outwardly appear <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 10: 37.">righteous</a> unto men, but within ye are full of <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/28b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Guile.">hypocrisy</a> and iniquity.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
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And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 21: 35 (33-42).">prophets</a>.
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Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Martyrdom.">killed</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/31b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Rejection of.">prophets</a>.
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Fill ye up then the <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 2: 19.">measure</a> of your <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/32b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 7: 51 (51-52); Hel. 13: 25 (25-29).">fathers</a>.
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<i>Ye</i> serpents, <i>ye</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 3: 7; Matt. 12: 34.">generation</a> of vipers, how can ye escape the <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/33b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Damnation; TG Punishment.">damnation</a> of hell?
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&#182; Wherefore, behold, I send unto you <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 38; D&C 43: 25.">prophets</a>, and wise men, and <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/34b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">scribes</a>: and <i>some</i> of them ye shall kill and crucify; and <i>some</i> of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute <i>them</i> from city to city:
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That upon you may come all the righteous <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/35a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Martyrdom.">blood</a> shed upon the earth, from the blood of <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/35b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteous</a> Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/35c" mark="c" type="A" title="Luke 11: 51.">temple</a> and the altar.
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Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/36a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Matt. 23: 34-35 Ye bear testimony against your fathers, when ye, yourselves, are partakers of the same wickedness. Behold your fathers did it through ignorance, but ye do not; wherefore, their sins shall be upon your heads.">generation</a>.
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O <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/37a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">Jerusalem</a>, Jerusalem, <i>thou</i> that <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/37b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Rejection of.">killest</a> the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often <sup>c</sup><a href="matt/23/37c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR have I desired to gather.">would</a> I have <sup>d</sup><a href="matt/23/37d" mark="d" type="C" title="3 Ne. 10: 6 (4-6); D&C 29: 2; D&C 43: 24 (24-25); TG Israel, Gathering of.">gathered</a> thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under <i>her</i> wings, and ye <sup>e</sup><a href="matt/23/37e" mark="e" type="C" title="D&C 138: 21 (21-22); TG Rebellion; TG Stubbornness.">would</a> not!
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Behold, your house is left unto you <sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 69: 25; Jer. 12: 7; Jer. 22: 5.">desolate</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="matt/23/39a" mark="a" type="A" title="JS-M 1: 1.">For</a> I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, <sup>b</sup><a href="matt/23/39b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 118: 26.">Blessed</a> <i>is</i> he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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